registry questions

[rookie1010]

Hello

I was udner the impression that the registry contains all the default values and initialisation values of the programs, but i still see .ini files scattered across the directory. what are those .ini files for?

my administrator has disabeld registry editing, is there any reason for that?

 

[MrCoffee]

in corporate environments registy access is often disabled as the registry gives a user significant control over their PC and is a security risk.

The registry contains a whole butt load of stuff, from MRUs to settings & associations etc.
Some programs still use .ini files and windows includes some for backward compatability reasons.

Edit: I think the point you're missing is that the registry contains pretty much all the settings (including security) for windows as well as some for applications.

 

[rookie1010]

thanks for the reply

makese sense now